resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
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Afghanistan, uspol
My take:
This wasn't a fuckup on the part of the U.S.
It was a successful, 20-year money laundering scheme.
Trillions of dollars' worth of Gen X's adulthood and Millennials' childhood were funneled out of American society, through Afghanistan
And into the pockets of defense contractors -- who are largely Republicans.
All those cushy, well-paying DC jobs in the past two decades -- these reports and videos are the price.
The Taliban aren't mystical superheroes who defeated the best armed forces on earth. They were the premise and the excuse for this multi-decade scam.
This wasn't a failure of the US military, either. Common soldiers were fooled and used.
And it's not Biden's fault -- or even Trump's really (though Trump made it worse because that's his shtick).
It's Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rove, and earlier Republicans who made this happen.
"Never forget."
@Gayniggeranus @Br0m3x Or did the US do anything that notably breached their agreement with Karsai or his successors?
@Br0m3x @Gayniggeranus you might be more convincing if you could list specific US mandates/demands in the ~19 years that followed the election that were unrelated to security. Did the US collect tax from Afghans? Did they regulate healthcare, education, banking, environmental protections, etc? Did the US stand in the way of Karsai and his successors on governance without security relevance?
@Br0m3x @Gayniggeranus that's true, but that does make it accurate to say there was a 20-year occupation. It was a 1 year occupation until the election was held.
@Gayniggeranus @Br0m3x Calling it an “occupation” is like calling it rape because you didn't like the sex that you consented to.
@puf Buster? Don't you mean Bullseye? Bullseye was already released AFAIK. If you're using Stretch, then you might be forced to upgrade because of the Tor issue.
@puf I wouldn't touch it then.. what would the point be? You could look at the official release notes, and also notice some of the pitfalls that were posted: https://raddle.me/f/freesoftware/132542/what-you-will-lose-when-upgrading-to-debian-bullseye
@Br0m3x @Gayniggeranus the elected gov was dependant on the US for security, so of course the US had influence. But the US was not the government of afghanistan and therefore it's incorrect to call it an “occupation”.
@Gayniggeranus @Br0m3x Who said the west had no influence? You seem to have misunderstood what I said.
@Br0m3x Is it weird that the Taliban was underestimated? Perhaps.
@Br0m3x I don't think US “occupation” is an accurate term. If it were an occupation the governance would have come directly from the US gov., not democratically elected President Hamid Karzai, his administration, his democratically elected successors, & the democratically elected parliament. Taliban also had internal resistence as the US withdrew but they were weak in comparison.
@Br0m3x a society that's not under an oppressive regime
@Br0m3x yikes. Sad to see that wealth will go to the Taliban.
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#Debian #Bullseye is set to release in the next day or two. You will be impacted if you run any of these apps/pkgs: #VBox, #gksudo, #openssl, #fetchmail, #ocrodjvu, #evince, #okular, #xpdf, #neomutt, #electronmail, #wire, #bitlbeeMastodon, #Kitty. More details: https://raddle.me/f/freesoftware/132542/what-you-will-lose-when-upgrading-to-debian-bullseye
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there is a whois service for onion sites. Not sure it's of great use, but FWIW here's a sample => torsocks whois -h torwhois.com underwood2hj3pwd.onion
@altlink @Agrandmaster @altlink ah, steemit is still around. I quit using them when shenanigans got thick, accts became hard to create.. even before the idiots put the blogs on #Cloudflare. BTW, I can't read that article b/c I'm forced to use archive.org to reach it, & archive.org says “This page is not available on the web because page does not exist”.
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@Doemela Does anyone know the v3 onion hosts for the #OnionMail.info servers? They're still listing the v2 onions which are apparently broken. https://onionmail.info/directory.html
@tilduke @realcaseyrollins I used to boycott #eBay as an extension of my #PayPal boycott. I heard there's no longer a paypal monopoly within eBay, but eBay port scans visitors: http://web.archivecrfip2lpi.onion/web/20200526092506/blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/ which is cause to avoid them. I didn't know #Instagram was a store. I never go there because it's a #Facebook asset.
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@kubikpixel indeed. #Ecosia.org is a privacy abusing #greenwash. And they recently got worse. Ecosia has recently become a #Cloudflare site, which is bad for privacy and the planet.
@kubikpixel indeed. #Ecosia.org is a privacy abusing #greenwash. And they recently got worse. Ecosia has recently become a #Cloudflare site, which is bad for privacy and the planet.
Joined Mar 2019
